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PHOTOS: World's biggest blackout

Thursday, August 02, 2012



Kolkata, India — An Indian barber holding a candle, does a haircut for a customer at his shop in Kolkata Tuesday. India's energy crisis cascaded over half the country when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity for several hours in, by far, the world's biggest blackout. (Photos: AP)

New Delhi, India — A traffic jam following power outage and rains at the Delhi-Gurgaon road on the outskirts of New Delhi Tuesday.



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